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The incident took place in Texas on Friday as the campaign bus traveled from San Antonio to Austin as part of a campaign to urge Biden supporters to vote on the last day of the state’s early polls. A Biden campaign official described the motorists’ actions as an attempt to slow the bus down and get it off the road.
People in vehicles on a “Trump train” began shouting profanity and obscenity and then blockaded everyone around Biden, according to another source close to the incident.
At one point, they slowed the tour bus to about 20 mph on Interstate 35, the campaign official said. Vehicles slowed to try to stop the bus in the middle of the freeway. The source said there were nearly 100 vehicles around the campaign bus. Biden’s staff were shaken by the event, the source said, although no one was injured.
Neither Biden nor his running mate, California Senator Kamala Harris, were on the bus. Multiple sources told CNN that Wendy Davis, a former state senator who challenges Republican Chip Roy of Texas’ 21st Congressional District, was on the bus. Davis’ campaign declined to comment on CNN on Saturday.
Bus personnel called 911, which ultimately led to local law enforcement assisting the bus at its destination.
President Donald Trump tweeted a video of the bus incident with the words “I LOVE TEXAS!” Saturday, and said during a campaign rally Sunday that his supporters were “protecting” the bus.
“But that’s something, have you seen how our people… you know they were protecting his bus yesterday, because they’re nice,” the president said.
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